Hi Michael, On Wed, June 17, 2020 22:48, Michael Biebl wrote: > Systemd itself does indeed search /usr/lib/systemd/system . Our > internal/Debian tooling though > (dh_installsystemd/invoke-rc.d/service/...) currently only handles files > from /lib/systemd (mostly for historical reasons where a /usr on a > separate partition mounted during late boot was still supported). > > So, theoretically, you can install unit files in /usr/lib/systemd/system > and systemd will process them. What you don't get is full Debian > integration.
Well, I'm quite sure in the sense that I had a unit file in /usr/lib/systemd/system but indeed commands like "service" did not work. I find it unexpected behaviour that systemd reports that it searches the directory but at the same time something like "service x start" does not work. Also I found https://lintian.debian.org/tags/systemd-service-file-outside-lib.html which explicitly says: "Systemd in Debian searches for unit files in /lib/systemd/system/ and /etc/systemd/system. Notably, it does not look in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ for service files." So I think the most clear way forward is either that it does not report this directory as being searched, or all the tools do in fact work with this directory. A mid way where some things work and others do not, is confusing to me at least. Cheers, Thijs
